skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is that as well - you must have much better developers than most sites.

And some times you have to let things fail and then explain why it di and then do it right
I read retraction watch every day, so I’m used to seeing stories like this. But I’m always surprised the effort people go through over articles published in garbage journals. You’re never going to even make a dent.
GNU coreutils manual explains it better.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Gene...
Doesn't the same argument apply to basically every security and privacy feature?

"No no no. The problem isn't unencrypted network connections, it's companies and people who use them in evil ways. I would rather handle that even if it's much harder."

Should we not have introduced HTTPS? Permission models on modern operating systems? 2-factor authentication?

What about Javascript makes it different to the problems solved by these other features?
Depends. I'm in a rural area, and I get 5-second power cuts every couple of months. It's the main reason I have a UPS under my computer desk.
When I want to use a new material for my fancy microchip fab, I refer to jeremyshiers.com as an authority about why it will work
Collecting doesn't include publishing it to the public, the NHS collects data about me but it doesn't hand it out willy nilly.
The embedded sdk is a dumbed down library providing playback, control is performed using Spotify's apps (via Spotify Connect). Libspotify provides playback and control i.e. everything needed to implement your own version of Spotify's app (but it predates Spotify Connect so has zero support for it).

It's not much of a replacement. And as you say, there is no public access anyway.
I generate photos and videos for one of my businesses and was backing up my laptop and external drives (connected regularly) to Backblaze. Or so I thought. When my critical 4TB external failed, I discovered that Backblaze hadn't had my system backed up for almost a year - there was a multi-TB backlog and at the throttled speed I had set for the sake of the office network, it would take 10+ years to catch up. Just something for everyone to stay aware of with cloud storage.

I currently back up to two drives at ingest, one being a per-year drive (e.g., 2020 jobs source media) that is rarely accessed. For major projects, I factor in one or two 1-2TB drives that receive an extra copy of source media and then are stashed. Not perfect, but so far so good.
What kind of metal? Mercury?
I do not think that receiving the raw data gives any rights to analyse the data and publish it on the own webpage.
> Tracking/detecting/fingerprinting/etc. is an arms race. Every feature a browser has (or could have and lacks), can be used as a variable to compile a tracking profile that identifies you and/or your general browser configuration (including but not limited to private mode).

Which is exactly why Firefox needs to push back on adding more and more of those features, especially those that are not needed for websites (rather than applications).
Extensions placed in the Bookmarks Toolbar: excessive bar width in Firefox 85 : FirefoxCSS

https://new.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/l5ikzu/extensio...

> – The excessive width might be caused by dead space that's intended for the Other Bookmarks button, which I will not use. …
My own, rather bitter, experiences with academic research in the early 1990s led me to suspect that by trying to "manage" academic research at a large scale was utterly counter productive and was optimising for all the wrong things (publications, career progression, money, politics) and was actually dramatically reducing the amount of actual science being done.

I left, co-founded a startup and never regretted it for a moment.

Edit: The point where I was sure I had to leave was when I was actually starting to play the "publications" game too well - when you find yourself negotiating with colleagues to get your name on their paper for a bit of help I'd decided things weren't really for me.

Edit2: I'd wanted to be an academic research scientist since I was about 5 or so when I actually got what I thought was my dream job I was delighted - took me a couple of years to work out why almost nothing in the environment seemed to work in the way I expected them to ("Why is everyone so conservative?") and became, as one outsider described me, "hyper cynical".
> Something we'll not be able to do in my lifetime sadly.

Unless you have terminal cancer, there is a path that might allow it to happen.

Of all the things HN thinks might happen because 'optimism' this is a lousy one to chose to be mostly accurate on.
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Such sites are important because they provide a large dose of useful information. This is very significant, and yet necessary towards for me. Thank u! https://skribble-free.online -> skribbl io https://geometrydash-free.online -> geometry dash
Firefox 85 crumbles cache-abusing supercookies with potent partitioning powers
The life that we care about as people is the biosphere that supports people life. I am not being facetious, that's just part of how this conversation works. We have to assume some things are shared knowledge.
The belief that any research is automatically true is so bogus and so abused that industries and lobbyists came to rely on it. It’s sad that then people blindly push as “it’s science”.

Main issue is the sheer amount of papers being published and the lack of capacity of the body of experts to read all of it. I guess it’s the professionalisation of research.

People publish papers to improve their rankings and not because it’s relevant.
I think we’re agreeing, actually.

A device optimised for operating “cool”-ly has obvious been optimised for temperature control. That doesn’t happen by accident.
A few years ago I got a mint condition Dell Mini 9 for €20. 1.6 GHz Atom, fanless, equipped with a 16GB SSD by default. I still think of turning this into my main, probably framebuffer-based workstation (I have really moderate needs if I discipline myself). This remains to be done, but I surely find this machine interesting (fanless+SSD=no moving parts=cool!). I have large-ish hands, but, surprisingly, the Mini 9 is even almost tolerable to type on.

Joey Hess famously used a Mini 9 for everyday work [1, 2]. I also dug out Jeff Atwood's old CodingHorror post on netbooks [3].

Working really efficiently on a really small (8-9 inch) screen is an interesting dream I keep coming back to. I imagine myself heavily relying on a sketchpad/whiteboard/chalk board for the "thinking" parts. The tiny machine would mostly serve as a typewriter, whilst also keeping me away from mindless browsing (it's much easier to look away from a 9-inch screen than from a 22-inch one). Nice theory for sure.

1: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/xmonad_layouts_for_netbooks/

2: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Dell_Mini_9/

3: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-web-browser-is-the-new-lap...
It's worth noting that proponents of moral naturalism, which is at least a position taken seriously in philosophy, do not find any problem with the is/ought problem. Furthermore, moral realism in general doesn't have a problem with it. The fact that they are "long thought" not to be a discovery of truth (by whom?) does not settle the question, but personally (as a moral anti-realist) I agree with you.

See this section for responses to the objection: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-non-naturalism/#Nat...
A major problem is that most people's knowledge is built almost entirely on social consensus and not on personal observation; yet, despite this fragile foundation, they feel extremely confident about the correctness of their knowledge.
IMO most people who call flat-earthers 'stupid' are what I would call 'educated idiots'.

Most people who call flat-earthers stupid do so based on a weak foundation of consensus knowledge that they pulled out of a few junior-school-level textbooks and space movies; they never actually read serious scientific research about the subject or did their own experiments.

One's inability to distinguish which parts of one's own knowledge is built purely on social consensus from those parts that are built on first-hand observable evidence and critical experimentation is a sign of stupidity.
You can just place a regular trackball between the keyboard-halves. Or use a keyboard-mouse if the keyboard-firmware supports it (which most of them should nowadays). A small trackpad is quite expensive and complicated, so most probably don't add them to an already expensive device because of this.
A semaphore can be used to control thread access to a resource.

A latch allows one or more threads to wait until a set of operations being performed in other threads completes [0].

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
You should tell UW about this.
We should clarify that "free speech" is unrelated to what Twitter and Facebook are doing. Free speech is a constitutional concept, protecting people from draconian government laws that suppress their speech, or discriminate them based on their speech.

What Facebook and Twitter are doing is providing a product that amplifies and places speech in front of particular eyeballs and ears. There are many, many issues with what Facebook and Twitter are doing, but they're all unrelated to the legally-protected constitutional free speech.

Some people have argued that "posting on Twitter/FB may as well be considered protected speech, since society depends on it so much" which is an interesting concept for sure, but has no basis in law yet.

Finally, to your last point, the amplification is not for everyone, and that's at the core of why people hate these companies right now. Users are subjectively amplified or suppressed, or kicked off. And this unequal treatment of users is at the very core of their business model: they make money by selectively amplifying content.
>>the absurdity of one of the most exploitative corporations

Unnecessary ideologically motivated mud-slinging. Amazon is chosen by consumers because it offers better selection, lower prices, and faster delivery.

Amazon has left the world much better than how it found it, unless you think people's wages being able to buy less (i.e. people getting lower inflation-adjusted wages) is somehow a better state of life.
Gallium, Indium, and Tin, I believe.
They treat humans almost as pets.

With some important differences: For one, pets don't get to vote...
They all have American left wing bias. Personally I'd prefer if they had either European left wing bias or European right wing bias, but right now we only have one option and that is the American political bias which is a really shitty situation. I can't wait for Europe to either ban them in some way or reign in their rights to moderate.
Basically we're going back to what delphi had 30 years ago. I understand that scalability concerns warrant a different approach, but a lot of the software we write will not deal with google or netflix scale.

I keep going back to the example of elixir/erlang (mostly because I'm getting into it now) but the tooling that is available in erlang is much more powerful than any newrelic or what ever monitoring/introspection tool we use now. And we've had it for years, but we've just ignored it.
I found the Planck too small for me/caused arm strain.

If anyone in the Eu wants to trade a Planck for Ergodox/Moonlander, I'd be happy to swap! :)
Pension funds are willing to give a away 2% annually to someone else for holding an asset for them?
Requests per Second in Python
How else would you implement PAM? The whole point is that you can write arbitrary code to implement whatever custom authentication policy you have, so it needs to be able to dlopen things. And if you don't like the PAM policy written by your distro, you're free to change it by implementing your own authentication policies, or dropping things you don't care about (like systemd, you can configure PAM to just use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow if you like).

sshd needs to run as root (obviously) because it grants login shells to people, so it needs to run in a privileged context. And the PAM modules it executes also need to be run as root, because PAM modules need to do things like read /etc/shadow.
Ah, I think we're stepping on an overloaded term. I mean tracking as in "identifier connecting visits from unrelated pages used for data collection" and not "identifier used by the site you're connecting to for purpose of holding browsing session variables".
> why is 'of colour' different/better/at all a good description of someone anyway?

It's different in that it's a different phrase. It's better because it's different; terminology in this area is driven purely by fashion.

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1988/08/28
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Eh, I disagree. I want to be able to eventually actually delete deleted files (to save on resources) more than I want to be able to retrieve files that I deleted a year back and didn't realize until now.
There actually is more than enough capacity to peer review (). It's just that nobody wants to do it. It costs time and money. Not compensated by the publisher, of course.

() edit: that's raw body count. I wouldn't know how many people could actually spot the errors mentioned in the OP.
2-3 years ago I found my mom's old clamshell G3 iBook in her garage (from around 2000). Surprisingly it still booted up and worked great. I wanted to do some writing that trip and instead of using my own laptop which was full of distractions, I opted to use Word on the iBook. Which was also fun.

I saved my work as a text file on a USB stick, which was no problem bringing over to my modern Mac.
Ask HN: What non-standard practices do your team do that you wish more did?
I'm really intrigued by the whole process of being a better, self reflective team - and in doing so, I'd be really keen to hear what different practices your team does - things that aren't necessarily standard across the industry - that you've found have been really helpful and you ultimately wish more tech teams did?
> Does it have full support for all the kinds of stacks people are running on Linux today?

No, of course not; the only thing that supports everything that Linux supports is Linux. But most use cases don't use every part of Linux.

> Is there a robust ecosystem of MirageOS users online able to help troubleshoot issues from the simple to the arcane?

I doubt it, but how do we get to there from here except by more users starting to use it?

> Is it supported by VPS providers the world over?

Yes, since what you build is just a VM image.

> However, if the answer to any of these is "no", I have a hard time seeing how "just abandon Linux wholesale for NewShinyThing" is a viable option for more than a tiny subset of users. (Even if they're all "yes", it's still a wildly unrealistic expectation...)

I don't disagree as such, but I do think that at this point building anything on these insecure foundations is throwing good money after bad / building castles on sand. Probably 95% of the time you build something that serves your present business purposes, accept a certain amount of insecurity, and get on with your life. But it's worth putting a bit of effort into looking for better ways to do things.
Finally someone is talking about the content of Zhang's "studies". Seems motivated to support predetermined policy, probably so the CCP can boast about their decisions being backed by science.
There's a very substantial different between privately reporting someone, and publicly shaming someone for a behaviour, which has potentially far more extensive consequences, including putting additional pressure on the employer to act harshly.

It's perfectly reasonable to think one or both is wrong while still thinking one is far worse than the other.
Sony did the same with the PS5
We already have this - AUR can be used in Arch. It... could be worse. I guess it works pretty well because of the small scale.
A language that tries to satisfy both of these groups won’t be ideal for either of them.

Python should aim to be perfect for group 1. There are many other languages that will always be a better choice for group 2.
Also, the important posts would be on Parler or Gab.
I don't think the Culture builds rings or spheres themselves, but they exist and they are aware of them. There are civilizations in the galaxy considerably more advanced than the Culture.
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I don't know if it ever got better, but in 2015 I lost multiple BTRFS file systems that we operated at near capacity limit, with a hefty churn of files. The FS wasn't shutdown without unmounting, or anything like that, but just used intensively. We had heard that you should keep plenty of unused space on BTRFS file systems, and this must be why.

The file systems couldn't be restored with the official suite of tools. It was a backup anyway and we restored the data from secondary backup.

I'm not positive that there is any other file system that I've ever lost significant data on.
I think this is a pretty old-school mindset. For instance, with strict TypeScript the overhead once you get used to properly typing things is minimal - most things are inferred, and it actually empowers you to code faster as you have guard rails and great autocomplete; the issues are more likely due to poor/non-existent types.
We tried that with XML, and no-one liked it.

The majority of web developers think the semantic web is a waste of time. (I don’t)

Pushing your point further, you’re saying that every new development that could be shareable over the web gets published as a standard and that browser developers build implementations of those standards, before the content is released. By the time that’s happened, your mind map will be out of date.

When anyone creates a novel representation someone will need to develop new code that renders it. Whether that goes into a native browser or a Java applet or a JS script, it’s still arbitrary code downloaded from a source you need to establish trust with.

You’re taking this too far. (And I admit my illustration smudges both your and my point).

The problem we really have is that advertising and SEO have corrupted the web to the point of unusability. If we (google mostly) hadn’t monetised individual tracking, we wouldn’t need the worst bits of what people do with javascript. Publishers are fighting for your attention because that creates surface for advertising. And advertising creates revenue. If they could sell content directly rather consumers wouldn’t get caught in an attention war and websites would be less intrusive and demanding.

Javascript itself isn’t the problem. I’m not convinced that scripted documents are the problem. The problem is surveillance capitalism and the attention ecconomy.
> They both believe in "progress". This is viewed as quaint, almost Victorian, in today's intellectual climate.

They also happen to be fairly successful at pushing the envelope.

Could that be a meaningful correlation?
My cousin was a student at a lab where a sketchy grad student doctored results too. She was majorly sketched out by the whole thing and that the PI supported the whole op. It was very painful and set her back a bit but she managed to switch to a different lab and do proper work, defend her thesis, graduate, and get far away from those people. Now we just shake our head in disbelief at them but at that point it was fairly existential. It's not easy to switch labs after some time there and people will sort of distrust you and everything.

My impression is that some large number of 'results' are fake results. I can't even imagine in non-hard sciences what the fakery is when the hard sciences have this stuff.
Which many computers never encounter. No excuse to have that on by default.
You might like https://twitter.com/xbresson/status/1271124929505714176?s=12
A semaphore allows threads to pass until the counter reaches zero.

A barrier (what this thing is) blocks threads until the counter reaches zero.
I can't imagine how tiring it is to do the investigation the author performed. He had to subscribe to literally garbage papers (from Qian Zhang) to investigate them. He had to do the policing. Because there is no quality control in research. Just citation counts and people-you-know.
I've never seen it in Spanish publications, although I've been told it happens (social sciences).

I know about the politics too, that's the main reason why I never went to pursue an academic career, but being honest I never witnessed such plain fraud in my UNI. It was more of a friends-get-all scheme.
Change the criteria that you should rewrite it in another framework and the point still stands. You already have a perfect specification in the existing code, no unknowns at all, just implement it. Yet it still takes months or years.
Sure, every car has a unique VIN and every running process is a different constellation of electrons (or just the one, if one-electron universe is assumed).

But looking at getting functionality to users, looking at the business problem, the time/effort/risk is spent on car design and software development, and much less time and risk is in the copying business. (Yes, Tesla recently had car copying problems, but they brute forced their problem, and now they are pretty good at factory copying too.)
If you have a whole text and sometime can't debunk a certain paragraph, that doesn't mean the story is true.

> Many can't be validated. They are sent from domains that don't use DKIM to sign outgoing emails.

> There are other timestamps in the email headers/metadata, but they aren't validated by DKIM, and hence, could be forged.

> I personally have many doubts about where this email came from, and the overall "narrative" they are trying to push. Regardless, I can validate the basic facts about this email.

Like I said: it contains elements of truth. Someone send a guy one email to verify that one explicitly...
Would you recommend it even over FreeNAS?
That’s mostly a marketing trick to get the company’s brand on your phone home screen.

It’s also a side effect of the demands of the attention economy fighting against Apple’s refusal to allow web notifications on iOS.
>We all follow rules we don't agree with; that is part of the social contract

it's been my experience that people generally don't follow rules they disagree with, unless they are afraid of the consequences. As such, seeing someone breaking the rule who is also someone in power over them with ability to enforce the rule can be especially galling.
> Exports Tclets which run in Netscape/MSIE. You must have the Tcl Plugin to see the Tclets.

Not sure the Tcl Plugin would still run anywhere, which is a shame